on Saturday threatened that Pyongyang will take a next step against the South and gave an instruction for the General Staff to take necessary measures.

but as an industry and a country to detect this kind of activity.And so there is a need for public transparency in that vein as well.

Microsoft revealed the hacking operation.Smith said in an interview with Face the Nation.Microsoft said Wednesday it had not detected any offensive attacks from the operation.

and also to holding the perpetrators accountable.Smith declined to give specifics on how the operation had come to light.

The New York Times reported that U.

saying it could disrupt communications between the U.occupied Japan after World War II.

in a shooting and stabbing attack in Japans central Nagano regionKim expressed his belief that the two countries would continue to maintain friendly relations.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday on the occasion of the countrys national day.He added that he had a firm belief that the joint recognition and agreements between him and the Russian president would be implemented without fail to dynamically promote the development of the strategic and traditional relations of friendship between the DPRK and Russia.